“Run them down, like Wile Coyote’s, run them over. Just stay on the right. Stay on the right.”

“And they all wear … my God … with the little water bottle in the back and their stupid hats and their shiny shorts, they are the same disgusting poseurs that come out in the middle of a snow storm with cross country skiing on your block. Run them down.”

“Why do these people think that these roads were built for bicycles?”

“And so you tap them. I’m not saying you kill them. I’m saying you tap them. Tap them once.”

My first reaction was: I hope this fat slob has a heart attack. Not a fatal one. Just “a tap” to get his attention.

Kornheiser has apologized after being deluged by criticism — even Lance Armstrong weighed in — so I’m no longer hoping Kornheiser gets to experience a myocardial infarction. But I’m still angry.

It seems when Armstrong heard about Kornheiser’s rant and tweeted about it (“Disgusting … ignorant … foolish … what a complete … idiot”), a lot of people got angry. Armstrong has 2,460,312 Twitter followers (as of this morning) and apparently a lot of them let Kornheiser have it.

“The level of scrutiny I’m getting,” Kornheiser said on a subsequent show last week, “is scary for me.”

Apparently it also made him realize he was out of line and his rant wasn’t funny (Is Kornheiser ever funny?), so he had Armstrong on his show to make amends. A few comments from Armstrong:

“So many times, people get in their car and drive a mile. Why wouldn’t you just get on your bike? That’s good for all of us.”

“Look at the stats … 40 years ago, 40 percent of our kids rode their bikes to school and the obesity rate was 14 percent. Today, you know how many kids ride their bike to school? Three percent of our kids ride their bikes to school. You know why? Because parents are afraid to put their kids on the street, they’re afraid they’re going to ride a mile to school and get run over.”

We’ve been over this ground before. Cyclists have a right to be on the road. Some cyclists do dumb things, but most of us don’t, because almost all of us are motorists as well and we know we can’t win an altercation with an automobile. We understand you don’t like to be inconvenienced when we get in your way. What about that bus in front of you? You want to ban buses, too? Cycling is good for you. You ought to try it.

Kornheiser deserves credit for apologizing, but the hostility he expressed reveals a resentment he most likely still harbors. Kornheiser thinks cyclists — and people who get on their cross country skis when it snows — are poseurs. No, Tony, they’re actually people who believe in the value of physical fitness. Good grief, what’s wrong with getting on your bike when the weather is nice, or skiing in a public park when it snows?